1 week left until I leave for China!

Now I am really starting to get nervous. The more I read about China, the more scared I get. My biggest fears today are getting robbed, getting false notes (can happend even when taking out money in the ATM), not understanding anything, being totally alone - not being able to talk english to anyone and that I wont succeed with my business idea...
But I am also very positive and excited, it will be around 25-30 degrees warm, compared to 5 here now in Malmö and I will get to see all this cool new stuff and touch new materials and further develop my ideas and hopefully bring home a bag full of prototypes ready to be sold!
I will write everyday starting next Tuesday when I land in Guangzhou. And post pictures and videos !

20 days to go then CHINA!!

Me in Simons, photo by their photographer

I have been mega busy, with doing everything and nothing. China is around the corner and I still didn't get my VISA or passport back and I feel that I have a lot of planning and sketching to do before I go - but no time.
All the diets - dukan, low carbs, high this and that have been put on the shelf and today I started replacing some meals with protein shakes, to win time and to save money and not to get into something complicated time consuming.

I feel that at this stage I should probably have all the sketches ready - I have none... It feels like I am fooling myself that it will be ok, when I really should put my ass into it NOW.

Last week I was in stockholm working and my boyfriend came with, then on the FRiday I went to my favorite club Simons in Copenhagen - a really cool place, like studio 54 in the old days with real celebrities like Orlando Bloom, the swedish prince, Lionel Riche etc to mention some that have been there the last months. If you are not on the list - there is no way you are getting in.

I came home at 6, though I took a taxi, that when I looked at my bankaccount, I could see ripped me off and let me pay 2100 SEK, when we had a deal of 1000 SEK!!! Idiot, now I have to send in the tag and a copy of my bank account and write an email, another stupid time-consuming thing.
At least I had fun! Then on the Saturday my friend had her birthday and got some staff from Hai - best sushi place in our town, to make sushi in her apartment for me and 14 other girl! Really cool :)

My little sister is home from Paris so I had lunch with her and her french boyfriend at Vapiano, and Sunday evening I went to my grandfathers birthday dinner just to wake up on the Monday and take a train to Gothenburg, attend a meeting and take a train home - eat pizza and SLEEP. Finally sleep, the first time since last Wednesday.

MARNI & HM - the collection

This is a collaboration gone totally right! Look at the awesome looks when Marni designes spring collection 2012 for HM.

Plastic is fantastic. Jewelry range from 199 kr - 499 kr

This white bracelet with stones is my favorite!

I can not say anything but that I failed - no excuses

My goal for Feb was to go below the magic line of 60 kg, when I weighed myself today the scale showed 63,5 kg, with 2 days to go of Feb I have to call it a failure.

I cannot do anything but try better now in March!
I will put up the same goals for training, but stick to them instead of pushing it to the end. That is:
18 hours at the gym and 12 hours power walking + 30 min in the morning before breakfast, this before breakfast part hasn't been prioritized at all now in Feb, but I will really do it now in March!

I have more time and can plan my life more effectively this month, I will not work with much other than finishing up sketches and material for my trip to China.
Tomorrow I will fix a new passport and get vaccinated. (Twinrix =hepatitis A+B, colera shot, tyfoid fever) that is 4 shots, because the twinrix I have to take twice before I go.

China Guangzhou here I come!

I have now booked the ticket for my trip to China were you get to follow my adventure of making my own products!
I will go for one month to Guangzhou, the third largest town with 12 million inhabitant and the largest city for export in China. I am leaving on April 10 all alone!! Wish me luck :)

Stockholm again

Since Wednesday I have been in Stockholm. I worked wednesday until friday when my friend arrived. We had a lot of fun, went strolling around town and then had after work at Scandic Anglais - the hotel were they stayed, I stayed in my moms boss apartment.
We had dinner at Ritz, which is suppost to be a hot spot and a nice place to dine, not according to me. The menu was like meant for a hangover sunday instead of an all in Friday, hamburgers and meatballs  for around 200-300 kr a dish and ww had to wait 1 hour to get the food, bad place. Then we went to a  preparty with strangers, left it quick because they were weird and then head of for Berns salonger, a beautiful night club! We stayed there until 4 and then went home. On the Saturday I was hang over and woke up all to early... so I did't go out that night, felt great on the Sunday though!

Lunch in the sun 

Anglais After work!

Cool interior of juice bar

Nice weather from the trains window

FEB
18/ 8 hour gym left
12 /7 hours power walk left
5/ 1 session Body cavitation left

Mindfulness - controlling your own happiness

Since I am a control freak with high expectations on life as well as on myself I have had lots of stress in my life and my mood is extremely fluctuating I have now started with Mindfulness. It is a combination of thinking exercises and breathing exercises and focuses on controlling your own thoughts and leaving in the moment instead of stressing out about the past and the future.
I will do the exercises everyday for 2 months (8 weeks) around 20 minutes daily and once a week I will attend a group exercise with leaders. I have now done this for 1 week and found that it is hard to find the time and the focus, but I hope it will work for me to make me more calm and make me enjoy life more!

Body cavitation session 3 - not really working

Tomorrow I will do session 4/5 of body cavitation, I don't know if I'm gaining weight for some other reasons or what.. but it's not working in the right direction. The lady who does it also took my measurements and told me I lost this and that, but she said I started out with 60 cm, when my thighs were actually 57 cm from the beginning, so I dont trust her all that.

I have little time now to reach my goal of 18 hours gym, 12 hours power walking in feb, so have to go more than once a day to the gym... hectic!

I did another measurement of my thighs to see the difference of these 2 last sessions,
right thigh 58 cm, left thigh 57 cm, so we will see but I dont feel the drastic change that the pictures on the internet promise!


FEB
gym 18/10 to go
power walking 12/10 to go
Body cavitation 5/2 to go

My Ebay goal is getting closer - have to find more things!

With a goal of selling things on Ebay and making 15.000 kr in 3 months doesn't seam to far away, I still have time and things to sell so I can maybe make even more money! 9133 kr so far and I just put out 20 new items, and I have maybe 100 more things to put out. Even if it's not expensive things I can make a small amount from each item! 

Mini Dukan

Today I will start with a min Dukan diet, a very much lighter version, were I will stay away from carbs as much as possible and eat a lot of low fat protein, but I will still eat vegetables, so it will be like the cruise phase of Dukan.
My weight is still on 62,5 with a target weight of under 60 by the end of this month, 14 days to go! So I have to do something drastic. I wont drink alcohol until the end of next week and I will do as much exercise as I can fit into my schedule. I still have 10 more hours of power walking and 13 hours of gym exercise left to reach my goal this month. That means that I will have to exercise more than 1 hour a day the remaining days!
If I make this I will be superproud :)